Jul 05, 2016 11:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
Mexican Peso: In recent days the MXN has started to play catch up to oil and the EM currency rally. Possibly US political risks are affecting the MXN, and if this is the case then the MXN could underperform the rest of EM...
Eurozone economy struggles to pick up momentum in June, GDP likely to have slowed in Q2
Jul 05, 2016 11:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Commentary
The eurozone economy failed to gain momentum in June. Markits PMI reading for June released earlier on Tuesday showed that the continents composite data - a mix of both services and manufacturing - hit 53.1 in June, up...
Jul 05, 2016 11:17 am UTC| Insights & Views
The driving forces that could lead RUB:The import substitution policies in focus: In our view, the Russian import substitution policies are unlikely to be successful. As things stand the agriculture and machinery sectors...
Jul 05, 2016 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
NOK: Norwegian interest rates are very closely correlated to oil prices, so the FX/rates link implicitly embeds the sensitivity to the commodity complex as a core driver. Not only is the NOK lagging the oil bounce and...
FxWirePro: Stay hedged or arbitraged in WTI crude ahead of economic concerns and API guesstimates
Jul 05, 2016 08:18 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
Technically, both daily and weekly charts suggest sell indications as there RSI signaling downward convergence with the slumping prices (currently RSI 14 trending at around 60 levels), while %D crossover sustains on slow...
FxWirePro: Platinum likely to outclass among precious metals space as D/S ratio plays its role again
Jul 05, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Platinum: Improved investor sentiment on PGMs and anticipated increases in physical investment purchases in 2016 have prompted an upward revision to our platinum price forecast from the last quarterly review. Lower mine...
How Uber opens cities only to close them
Jul 05, 2016 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Most of us know the story of what Salons Elias Isquith calls Wall Streets favourite disrupter. Uber, the ride-hailing service run primarily through smartphones, is a global economic success story. In 2008, it was but an...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects